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1 LGBTQIA+ folks in tech Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) is a UX consultancy trusted by leading organizations world-wide to provide reliable guidance on user experience. NN/g provides evidence-based UX insights in the form of research findings in articles, in-depth training, and consulting. We’re a small, fully remote company (fewer than 40 people, currently). We believe deeply in our mission to help the world learn about UX, and enjoy working with our curious and passionate coworkers. Once or twice a year, we travel to a fun location to spend time together in-person and discuss ideas to improve our work and our company. (Our most recent offsite locations include Jackson Hole and San Diego.) When we hire people, they tend to stick around for a while. Our average employee retention is 7 years.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a talented visual designer to join our small design team. You’ll work with a group of designers to translate complex concepts into visualizations that help our audience learn about UX.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Very strong visual and conceptual design skills
- At least some knowledge of UX
- The ability and willingness to collaborate with UX researchers
Our new teammate will work on:
- Data visualizations
- Creating templates for graphs and charts
- Concept visualizations and infographics
- Book design and visuals
- Typesetting
- Storyboarding
Responsibilities
- Grasping in-progress UX concepts and exploring methods for visually representing them
- Understanding constraints, requirements, and considerations of deliverables
- Sketching concepts to communicate ideas
- Collaborating with authors, researchers, other designers, and videographers to improve visualizations
- Producing high-fidelity, polished outputs: icons, infographics, and posters
- Designing a visual system for physical publications
Qualifications
- A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in graphic design (or visual design), UX, or similar field
- A degree in design: graphic design, visual design, interaction design, communication design, or a related design discipline
- Strong visual design skills: color, typography, imagery, and iconography
- Excellent ability to translate research insights and frameworks into a consumable, compelling visual
- Able to seek input, iterate, and quickly adapt to feedback
- Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite
INTERVIEW PROCESS
- Submit application to designjobs@nngroup.com
- Design exercise #1 (take home)
- 1-2 interviews
- Design exercise #2 (take home)
- Final interview
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
We take our responsibility as leaders of the UX community very seriously. We recognize that many young and aspiring UX professionals turn to our free content to help them start their careers. We want those people to feel welcomed and represented when they come to NN/g for UX guidance and inspiration. We’re working towards that goal in many ways, one of which is thoughtfully hiring so that our team better reflects the diversity of the UX field.